No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
JACK KORNFIELDEach moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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We can always begin again.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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